William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 120m
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy, Pete Postlethwaite
Synopsis:
An updating of the story to Verona Beach, California, with the Montagues and Capulets as feuding gangs of hoodlums.
Review:
The visual treatment goes beyond the mere effusiveness of Strictly Ballroom to a jokeyness reminiscent of sixties excesses like Casino Royale, in particular a deliberately subversive use of speeded-up motion. This is exhilarating or tiresome according to taste, but never dull; though the lines are not always clear and the leads short on charm.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 120m
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy, Pete Postlethwaite
Synopsis:
An updating of the story to Verona Beach, California, with the Montagues and Capulets as feuding gangs of hoodlums.
Review:
The visual treatment goes beyond the mere effusiveness of Strictly Ballroom to a jokeyness reminiscent of sixties excesses like Casino Royale, in particular a deliberately subversive use of speeded-up motion. This is exhilarating or tiresome according to taste, but never dull; though the lines are not always clear and the leads short on charm.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 120m
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy, Pete Postlethwaite
Synopsis:
An updating of the story to Verona Beach, California, with the Montagues and Capulets as feuding gangs of hoodlums.
Review:
The visual treatment goes beyond the mere effusiveness of Strictly Ballroom to a jokeyness reminiscent of sixties excesses like Casino Royale, in particular a deliberately subversive use of speeded-up motion. This is exhilarating or tiresome according to taste, but never dull; though the lines are not always clear and the leads short on charm.